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Birds and Outside Storytime

When I went into work last Saturday, the weather was so beautiful that I couldn’t resist moving storytime to our deck area.

On Saturdays, I usually only have a few kids, so it worked nicely because our deck is a little small for a crowd of preschoolers and toddlers dancing. I also chose a bird-themed storytime that I created as part of our sizes series and an accompanying bird feeder craft that’s just too simple and perfect to resist.

I moved my storytime easel and brought out all my books and flannels for the day. I chose to just bring out my iPad for music this day too.

(I think that talking about mamas and their babies is a very natural way to talk about growth in sizes and how we all change over time. Babies and toddlers love pointing out which animal is the baby and which is the mama.)

Baby and Mama match-up game

(I printed pictures of farm animals and their babies, including their names on the pictures, and explained that the mamas lost their babies. The children helped match them on our flannel board.)